Partner Acquisition Sales Executive Contractor - German Speaking
Lyst Open · verified Sep 30, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at Lyst. Remote, Germany · contract.
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What you'll do
- Use your German fashion contacts to bring 100 brands onto Lyst before Peak season
- Build your own brand prospect list, then run outreach and pitch potential partners
- Manage each German-market deal from first contact through objections, negotiation, and technical handoff
- Move quickly and independently, using existing relationships to create conversations and close partnerships
What you bring
- Native or fluent German, with Germany preferred or a strong grasp of the German market from London
- An established network and trusted relationships across German fashion brands
- A record of building pipeline, resolving objections, negotiating terms, and closing independently
- Experience recording fast-moving outreach activity in CRM tools such as Salesforce or Apollo
- Working knowledge of fashion business, e-commerce, and affiliate models
Who this fits
You’ll suit a self-directed sales executor who can start immediately and complete a focused two-to-three-month contractor project. The role is remote and tied to Germany, with London-based German speakers considered when they know the German fashion landscape deeply. Expect individual ownership of the sales cycle rather than internal strategy work.
From the employer
Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. In 2025, Lyst joined Zozo, operators of Zozotown, the leading fashion e-commerce platform in Japan. This partnership marks a bold new era for Lyst, as we accelerate our vision and work together to transform the future of fashion shopping through AI and technology.
At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better choices and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.
The Role
We are looking for a highly proactive and extremely well-connected Partner Acquisition Contractor for an immediate start, 2-3 month project.
We don't need you to focus on internal projects or overarching strategy pieces; we are purely looking for an amazing, self-reliant executor who can hit the ground running. Your sole focus and objective will be leveraging your existing network to successfully onboard 100 German fashion brands to the Lyst platform ahead of our Peak season.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will be expected to independently build your own target lists, proactively pitch, and negotiate partnerships with minimal intervention from the wider team.
Responsibilities
- Rapid Partner Acquisition: Hit the ground running to proactively pitch, negotiate, and seamlessly onboard 100 German fashion brands to the Lyst platform before Peak season.
- Independent Sourcing & Targeting: Independently supply a high-quality list of target brands to approach, requiring little to no intervention or direction from the internal team.
- End-to-End Execution: Take complete ownership of the sales cycle for the German market—from initial outreach and objection handling to final negotiation and hand over to our technical onboarding specialist.
- Relationship Leveraging: Utilise your existing rapport and connections within the German fashion industry to secure fast conversations and quick wins.
Requirements
- Language & Location: Fluent/Native German speaker. Candidates based in Germany are preferred.(However we’re open to German native speakers based in London as long as you have a deep understand of the German fashion landscape)
- Industry Network: Deep, working knowledge of the local German fashion space, coming with a "black book" of existing connections and established rapport with relevant fashion brands.
- Pure Executor: You are a proactive, self-reliant self-starter. You know how to build a pipeline and close deals autonomously.
- Sales & Negotiation: Proven ability to handle objections, negotiate terms, and articulate a clear value proposition to move partners from initial conversations to live on the platform at speed.
- Commercial Understanding: A genuine interest in the business of fashion and the e-commerce/affiliate landscape, with the ability to build compelling business cases for why a brand should join Lyst.
- CRM Proficiency: Experience using CRM tools (like Salesforce, Apollo) to accurately log your rapid outreach pipeline.
Benefits
N/A - Contract Role
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